By John Veasey
Times West Virginian
FAIRMONT —
Mike Tipi leads quite a life.
He has spent about 20 years with the Fairmont Little League. He says he coached there for seven years and then became the public address announcer and scorekeeper.
He is proud of the fact that the press box at Mary Lou Retton Park was named for him. “There’s a plaque inside the press box designating that,” he says.
Mike also supplied the newspapers with the scores and write-ups of the A League games in recent years.
Anything that’s happened out there over the past 20 years, Mike can probably tell you about it.
People know him all around town. He says his former players are always speaking to him and he admits sometimes he can’t remember who they are since they are grown now, but were young boys when he knew them.
